FCC Approves New Net Neutrality Rules

[Bearcat]

The analogies in that article and saying the content providers want someone else to pay for "high costs" don't really hold up when the new ISP in town is offering the current basic service for free and a product that's 100 times faster for the same price as a standard cable/internet package. "forcing" the current ISPs to take their foot off the hose.

[Garcia Bronco]

"The opposition, in contrast, has been represented by small players in the industry, hardware providers like Cisco, free-market think tanks and disinterested professors, and a small group of writers and pundits who know something about freedom and free-market economics. The public at large should have been rising up in opposition but people are largely ignorant of what’s going on"


WTF? Cisco is not a "Small player" in the industry. Not even a little bit. They're a dogshit company, but not a small one.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

"The opposition, in contrast, has been represented by small players in the industry, hardware providers like Cisco, free-market think tanks and disinterested professors, and a small group of writers and pundits who know something about freedom and free-market economics. The public at large should have been rising up in opposition but people are largely ignorant of what’s going on"


WTF? Cisco is not a "Small player" in the industry. Not even a little bit. They're a dogshit company, but not a small one.

This is not saying Cisco is a small company. Reads like small players in the industry AND hardware providers such as Cisco are in opposition. For whatever reason.

My take.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by eDave

This is not saying Cisco is a small company. Reads like small players in the industry AND hardware providers such as Cisco are in opposition. For whatever reason.

My take.

Cisco sell tons of load balancing gear. Perfect for throttling down or speeding someone up.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Cisco sell tons of load balancing gear. Perfect for throttling down or speeding someone up.

Yes indeed. We throttle (bits) American Express, internally, like a mofo.

That hardware has been and will still be procurred.

[suzzer99]

The braintrust at the FoxNews.com comment stream weighs in:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...used-meddling/

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[Pablo]

I'm not sure if that came from the FoxNews comment section or our own DC forum.

Just beautiful work there.

[suzzer99]

It actually makes DC look pretty moderate. o_O

[Xanathol]

Naturally the usual cast of stupid is here saying how great this is. For the 'selling point', ie stopping throttling of certain services, yeah, it's great. The problem here is 1. This opens the door for them to regulate internet traffic - kiss another piece of liberty good bye, thanks to 'liberals' and 2. The FCC, on their own, decided they wanted the power to make this decision and thus gave the power to themselves. If that doesn't scare you / piss you off, then you are a dumbass.

[Loneiguana]

Originally Posted by Xanathol

Naturally the usual cast of stupid is here saying how great this is. For the 'selling point', ie stopping throttling of certain services, yeah, it's great. The problem here is 1. This opens the door for them to regulate internet traffic - kiss another piece of liberty good bye, thanks to 'liberals' and 2. The FCC, on their own, decided they wanted the power to make this decision and thus gave the power to themselves. If that doesn't scare you / piss you off, then you are a dumbass.

Please show where this opens the door for them to regulate internet traffic.

Please explain how the FCC doesn't have the power to regulate.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Xanathol

Naturally the usual cast of stupid is here saying how great this is. For the 'selling point', ie stopping throttling of certain services, yeah, it's great. The problem here is 1. This opens the door for them to regulate internet traffic - kiss another piece of liberty good bye, thanks to 'liberals' and 2. The FCC, on their own, decided they wanted the power to make this decision and thus gave the power to themselves. If that doesn't scare you / piss you off, then you are a dumbass.

It might be different if you fearmongering nuts actually had something legitimate to fear. But right now you're just waving jazz hands and saying "Be afraid.. Cause Obama..."

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Fish

It might be different if you fearmongering nuts actually had something legitimate to fear. But right now you're just waving jazz hands and saying "Be afraid.. Cause Obama..."

The converse could also be said, because nothing has actually changed one way or another from yesterday to today.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

The converse could also be said, because nothing has actually changed one way or another from yesterday to today.

Nothing has changed? You must have missed post #242...

• No Blocking: broadband providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
• No Throttling: broadband providers may not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
• No Paid Prioritization: broadband providers may not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other lawful traffic in exchange for consideration – in other words, no “fast lanes.” This rule also bans ISPs from prioritizing content and services of their affiliates.

More: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...&postcount=242

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Fish

It might be different if you fearmongering nuts actually had something legitimate to fear. But right now you're just waving jazz hands and saying "Be afraid.. Cause Obama..."

Hey man, whenever you get a chance to live your life in a state of constant fear and paranoia, you just gotta take that chance!

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Xanathol

Naturally the usual cast of stupid is here saying how great this is. For the 'selling point', ie stopping throttling of certain services, yeah, it's great. The problem here is 1. This opens the door for them to regulate internet traffic - kiss another piece of liberty good bye, thanks to 'liberals' and 2. The FCC, on their own, decided they wanted the power to make this decision and thus gave the power to themselves. If that doesn't scare you / piss you off, then you are a dumbass.

I agree. Net neutrality is a bad thing. Now it's an impossible future for ISPs to shut down reeruns like you.